In the summer of 1518, dozens of people in Strasbourg danced for days and couldn’t stop. The archive records, the chronicles, the St Vitus pilgrimage, the disputed death toll and the theories, from mass hysteria to ergot.
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In short Between 1632 and 1634, in Loudun, in Poitou, the Ursuline nuns led by Mother Superior Jeanne des Anges
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In short In November 1565, in Vervins, Picardy, Nicole Obry, or Aubry, a girl of 15 or 16, began to
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In short Blanche Monnier, born in Poitiers in 1849 into a wealthy family, was locked by her mother in a
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In short Who: Gilles de Laval, Baron de Rais (Champtocé, c. 1405 – Nantes, 26 October 1440). Who he was:
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The guillotine was a method of carrying out the death penalty used in several countries, including France, Italy, Belgium, Germany
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